Biotechnology Coverage

Fujifilm Diosynth expanding footprint in Holly Springs

State and local leaders gathered to talk about the $1.2 billion investment in Holly Springs on Thursday. They think it will be more than worthwhile.

Sources: Fujifilm Diosynth planning to add hundreds of jobs to Wake County

Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies is planning to add more than 600 jobs as part of a $1 billion expansion in North Carolina, people familiar with the plans told WRAL News.

Collaboration and innovation: growing North Carolina's life sciences ecosystem

Our state’s rise as a powerhouse in life sciences can be attributed to a myriad of factors, including significant investments in research infrastructure, a robust talent pipeline, and a culture of collaboration that fosters innovation.

NC Plant Sciences Initiative Startup Program helps ideas become viable products, services

The new North Carolina Plant Sciences Initiative (N.C. PSI) Startup Program helps researchers, alumni and others translate their ideas and discoveries into viable products and services that benefit agriculture.

Charter Medical's new Innovation Hub joins Winston-Salem's Innovation Quarter

The Innovation Hub features a state-of-the-art lab space where single-use studies for freezing, transportation, and protection will be performed to support the biopharma industry’s cold chain logistics process.

US scientists are leaving academia. That’s bad news for drug companies

Scientists in the United States, especially those in the biomedical fields, are increasingly leaving the world of academia for better-paying industry jobs amid stagnant federal funding and low wages.

Durham biotech company cancels $18.9M economic incentives deal with NC

BioAgilytix Labs said declines in biotech funding caused the company to shift its strategy. Its grant was one of three canceled Tuesday by state economic developers.

Jack Hagel, WRAL News

400 biopharma manufacturing jobs promised for Wilson County

Biopharma device manufacturer Schott Pharma USA Inc. plans to create 401 jobs as part of a $371 million investment in Wilson County, state officials said Monday.

US welcomes new governments to fight against spyware as it finds more American personnel have been targeted

(CNN) -- The Biden administration is welcoming six new countries to a US-led pact to crack down on phone-hacking spyware as US officials tell CNN that the administration continues to find new cases of American government personnel being targeted by a technology that is deemed a national security and counterintelligence threat.

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN

JLL names Research Triangle as nation's top biomanufacturing hub

Though JLL has produced a life sciences industry report for years, this is the first one that has broken out the important biomanufacturing segment.

Japanese pharmaceutical company to open in Sanford, create over 100 new jobs, NC officials say

Japanese pharmaceutical company to open in Sanford, create over 100 new jobs, NC officials say

In exchange for the 102 jobs and millions of dollars in promised capitol investment in Lee County, Kyowa Kirin will receive over $10 million in state and local incentives.

Will Doran, WRAL state government reporter

What to know about human brain implants

The initial aim is to help someone who has had a stroke or who has a motor degenerative disease like ALS or other physical problems communicate directly through the implant to an outside device like a phone, tablet or computer.

Fewer shots, less illness: The promise of a 'universal' flu shot

What if you could get one shot every few years that targeted all of the flu strains at once?

New FUJIFILM site praised for hopeful contributions to medicine

Tuesday's celebration comes roughly two years after the site's groundbreaking in 2021. CEO and president Lars Petersen says we're seeing what the final product will look like: 7 buildings spread across nearly 1 million square feet.

'Medicine at a bigger scale': FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies unveils new Holly Springs drug manufacturing site

Hundreds of employees and company leaders celebrated in Holly Springs Tuesday for the unveiling of the new FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies (FDB) site. Additionally, the company announced Janssen, a Johnson & Johnson company, will be its first tenant once it opens in 2025.

Destinee Patterson, WRAL reporter

Solutions to the microplastic problem

Recent studies estimate the average American consumes a credit card's worth of plastic each week. That's equivalent to ingesting 50 plastic grocery bags each year. Now, area innovators are coming up with solutions to tackle the pervasive plastic problem.

Area innovators hope to reduce the unnerving amount of microplastics Americans consume

Recent studies estimate the average American consumes a credit card's worth of plastic each week. That's equivalent to ingesting 50 plastic grocery bags each year. Now, area innovators are coming up with solutions to tackle the pervasive plastic problem.

Liz McLaughlin, WRAL climate change reporter

Family of Henrietta Lacks Settles with Biotech Company That Used Her Cells

Henrietta Lacks, a Black mother of five, was dying of cervical cancer in 1951, when doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore took a sample of her cells without her knowledge or consent.

Amanda Holpuch, New York Times

Durham company grows human blood vessels, sends them to wounded Ukraine soldiers

Humacyte grows human blood vessels from human cells to serve surgeons for use in severe trauma cases like industrial accidents, gunshot wounds and the war in Ukraine.

Durham company growing blood vessels from human cells

Humacyte in Durham is growing human blood vessels to be used in severe trauma cases like industrial accidents, gunshot wounds and the war in Ukraine.

Durham company grows human blood vessels, sends them to wounded Ukraine soldiers

A company at RTP is growing human blood vessels and sending them to help wounded soldiers in Ukraine.

Sarah Krueger, WRAL Sr. Durham reporter

No more needles? That's a promise of new drug delivery tech from Chapel Hill startup

Imagine receiving a COVID-19 vaccine not from the jab of a needle and syringe but by slipping a thin, clear film smaller than a postage stamp inside your cheek or under your tongue and letting it dissolve. That's one of the potential benefits of a new drug-delivery technology being developed by a startup company in Chapel Hill.

How women in biotech leadership are driving change in the workplace

At BioCryst, women in leadership create a supportive community and ways to pave the trail for others.

How women in biotech leadership are driving change in the workplace

At BioCryst, women in leadership create a supportive community and ways to pave the trail for others.

Abbey Slattery, WRAL Digital Solutions